Parting It Out. Writing on Graphic Design by Ian Lynam

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Poster for an exhibition of Ian Lynam's work at the Rubber Vloeren, Lynam's revival of letterforms drawn by Piet Zwart in the early 1920s.

Parting It Out

is a collection of essays spanning much of Graphic Design as it applies to aspects of contemporary culture — from the Olympics to Japan to typography to R. Kelly to Cuba to sign painting. A practicing graphic designer, design teacher and design critic based in Tokyo, Ian Lynam has crafted an assembly of writing that is equal parts personal narrative, design criticism, design history and cultural study.

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All fonts in use are credited in the colophon, set in CIA Dictator.

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Exhibition signage

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Blurb on the back cover featuring reversed Bureau Grot.

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Detail from the introduction, featuring various styles of Jens Gehlhaar's CIA Compendium: CIA Humdrum, CIA Earthworm, and CIA Dogsear.